PowerPoint 365
How to create a flowchart with chalk drawing effect
Some of the popular presentations show slides that mimic blackboards, and charts or diagrams look
that like drawn by chalk. Here you will find some tricks that help to create slides like this:
How to create a hand-drawn arrow shape in PowerPoint
Hand-drawn diagrams and flowcharts became popular lately, but you cannot use default PowerPoint
shapes to create them. In this tip, you will see how to create a custom arrow shape with a
freehand effect.
How to create a hand-drawn oval shape in PowerPoint
PowerPoint provides a lot of tools that help you to create unique and memorable presentations.
Custom shapes
allow you to develop reusable pieces and use them many times in the presentation or multiple
presentations.
How to create an equilateral triangle, a regular square, and other regular polygons in PowerPoint
For some charts or diagrams, you need to create a regular polygon – equiangular
(all angles are equal) or equilateral (all sides have the same length).
E.g., equilateral triangle, regular square, etc.
Change the default font for text boxes in PowerPoint
When you create a text box in your presentation, any text you type appears has the default font that can be
different from version to version...
Change the default font and style for shapes in PowerPoint
When you create a shape in your presentation, it is created with the default style and any text that you
type has the default font.
How to create drops or waves effects in PowerPoint
Using different fonts for creating shapes is useful, fast, and easy. Different letters of different fonts can
give the creative and modern look of your pictures. Letters can emulate brush or crayon effect, water stains, or
even drops and waves. This tip is about the drops effect that can help you to create beautiful pictures.
How to create water stains effects in PowerPoint
There are a lot of ways how to show your picture in the PowerPoint slide. You can choose different borders
with ornaments and colors, you can use different shapes for it, or you can use letters like shapes. This tip
is about the water stains effect that can help you to create illustrations.
How to create crayon effects in PowerPoint
To create a modern looking illustration in your PowerPoint presentation, you can use a brush effect, or
add pictures with torn
edges, or make a mask for
pictures using simple and fast tricks. This tip is about another effect that can help you to create
different crayon effects.
PowerPoint slide with several shapes and one picture
When you create a presentation, you simply choose some existing company presentation template. However, you
might need to invent something new and creative to impress the stakeholders. This tip shows how to use
several simple shapes to create a visually appealing design for your slides.